Contested Commons
Contested Commons: The Future of American Power in a Multipolar World – Abraham M. Denmark, Dr. James Mulvenon, Frank Hoffman, Lt Col Kelly Martin, USAF, Oliver Fritz, Eric Sterner, Dr. Greg Rattray, Chris Evans, Jason Healey, and Robert D. Kaplan; Center for a New American Security Report.
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) released today a major report on American power in the sea, air, space and cyberspace: Contested Commons: The Future of American Power in a Multipolar World. The report, authored by CNAS Fellow Abraham M. Denmark and nine additional experts, advocates that the United States renew its commitment to the global commons by pursuing three mutually supporting objectives: build global regimes that preserve the openness of the commons; engage pivotal actors that have the will and ability to protect and sustain them; and develop the hard-power tools and capabilities necessary for the United States to defend the global commons.
Read the full report at CNAS.
The report looks like another attempt to scrap the United Nations. Largely because globalisation is ineffective so far in important areas, such as security and economics.
Leaving this aside, why should countries supportive of a global commons want to pay the US nation to set the overall rules and enforce them with its Leviathan capabilities? For example, the Carter doctrine is inconsistent with a global commons. Repudiate the Carter Doctrine